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MeV

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  1. million electronvolts (10 6 electronvolts)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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An acceleration of several hundred MeV could therefore resemble temperatures close to the QCD transition temperature.

From Science Daily Aug. 3, 2026

At lower energies, nuclear stopping initially slows the matter down, producing deceleration of up to about 500 MeV.

From Science Daily Aug. 3, 2026

The simulations showed that peak proper acceleration can reach several hundred MeV at both low and high collision energies.

From Science Daily Aug. 3, 2026

The nucleus must also emit an α particle of energy 0.26 MeV in the opposite direction.

From Textbooks Aug. 12, 2015

They found that the bombardment of californium with boron ions released α particles which had an energy of 8.6 MeV and decayed with a half-life of 8 ± 2 seconds.

From A Brief History of Element Discovery, Synthesis, and Analysis by Glen W. Watson

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